Annie Mahoney

Annie Mahoney

Director of Development and Events at TCCRI

Annie Mahoney is Director of Development and Events at TCCRI. A native of Gulfport, Mississippi she holds a Bachelor of Psychology from University of Mississippi, where she was a member of Tri Delta sorority.

Annie has extensive fundraising experience and has helped grow TCCRI into a leading state-based public policy organization. Through her strong interpersonal skills and relationships across the Texas Capitol community, she has successfully planned and coordinated numerous policy and other events. Most notably TCCRI’s biennial Black Tie & Boots Galas with 700 attendees and TCCRI’s biennial Policy Forum, as well as multiple Policy Summits in cities across Texas. These events have featured Texas’ longest-serving governor, Rick Perry, Governor Greg Abbott, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, as well as other elected officials, together with nationally renowned political commentators. Annie and her husband Daniel reside in Austin with their son Murray and dog Maggie. They regularly attend Austin Stone Community Church.

“The recognition of the insuperable limits to his knowledge ought indeed to teach the student of society a lesson of humility which should guard him against becoming an accomplice in men’s fatal striving to control society — a striving which makes him not only a tyrant over his fellows, but which may well make him the destroyer of a civilization which no brain has designed but which has grown from the free efforts of millions of individuals.”

“It is no good to have convictions unless you have the will to translate those convictions into actions … I often think that when you are going for consensus so often it means that those who believe as I believe tend to give in to the left wing and you move steadily further and further left.”

“In the meantime we live in a country that despite its baffling array of rules and regulations and the insatiable desire of some people to use government to rationalize society still makes it possible to get drinkable water instantly, put through a telephone call in seconds, deliver a letter in a day, and obtain a passport in a week. Our Social Security checks arrive on time. Some state prisons, and most of the federal ones, are reasonably decent and humane institutions. The great majority of Americans, cursing all the while, pay their taxes. One can stand on the deck of an aircraft carrier during night flight operations and watch two thousand nineteen-year-old boys faultlessly operate one of the most complex organizational systems ever created. There are not many places where all this happens. It is astonishing it can be made to happen at all.”

“[T]raditionalists must be committed to the preservation of spaces for private life that are protected from the perverse shortsightedness of politics… [W]e should be intensely engaged in the struggle for the soul of our society—knowing we can expect no ultimate victory from politics, but also that we are by no means destined to defeat, and that by persisting in the struggle we make room for another generation to rise and thrive and seek to embody the good. Politics can do no more than that, but it must do no less.”

“Our framers understood that government was inclined to advance its own interests, even to the point of ham-fisted bullying, which is precisely why the Constitution was written–to keep government on a leash, not We the People.”